Summary: retired
telephone company worker and longtime labor activist who was diagnosed
with advanced lung cancer in July 2015 and was suffering from
late-stage cancer when she won permission to buy medical marijuana in
Maine before it was available in her home state of New Hampshire, in
which a state law allowing medical marijuana was passed in 2013 but
New Hampshire wasn't ready to begin issuing cards allowing people to
use it by November 2015 when she sued seeking access to it before a
judge ordered the state to issue her a card so she could get medical
marijuana in neighboring Maine later that month.